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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 1, 2009 21:37:18 GMT -5
"I was telling Ede how it was. She was unstable. She went to hit me. I blocked. That's the summary of it before Linnis walked in. I got nothin' to hide to UNIT. Kindly ask me before askin' my co-workers next time."
Juliet's emerald eyes were staring directly at Sylvestree's head. She had hung around the hospital helping victims, as she couldn't really go to work. Her hand was still in the cast and she was leaning up against the doorframe with a raised eyebrow.
She was beginning to notice something. The last few little suspects around town had all offended a lesbian and then immediately they were accused of something. Most of the time they were straight. It was becoming a set of factions around this town. She was tempted to pack up and leave but Shizuma wouldn't. So she would stay.
"I got nothin' to hide, I'm not scared by bureaucrats. Cuff me without evidence, I dare ya." She shrugged. "Hell, I'll even co-operate with you. You want to search my apartment? Great. You want to brush me for gunpowder traces? Lovely. But unless there's some grand scheme laid down by a mysterious someone that completely godmods my entire life, you've got nothing."
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Post by William Nimbus on Apr 2, 2009 0:02:37 GMT -5
Will shook his head. "Believes me, Miss, Juliet and I have been on the top of the list. Apparently people believe that the underlings want to get rid of their higher ups. And to be honest, they have more evidence against me, than her. Lighter, letter.. they found everything except a gun with my possessions." Will said, trying to shrug. It hurt.
"The way I see it, unless someone wants to suggest that somehow I healed myself, got off this bed, ran down the hall, and shot Ede in the back, and then came back here and un-healed without anyone seeing me, or even if I were possessed or something, we have absolutely no lead."
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Post by skye on Apr 2, 2009 1:26:52 GMT -5
"Godmodes?"
Skye looked at her quizzically. She shook her head and closed her notebook.
"We will be searching your home, miss Kruger, don't doubt that for a moment. As for you, Will, it couldn't be you. SMPD and the assailant is an idiot if that's what's going on, and somehow I doubt it is. I'm not sure what the letter you're talking of says, or if the lighter is a ploy ot pin this on that Selk character, but..."
She slowly shook her head and ran a hand through her hair.
"We suspect internal strife at II because Ede's coat was stolen. Ede always wears that rather hideous jacket, and it was missing. We imagine it was an attempt to either delay reconstruction of II or to steal something II-related from her. There is talk of it being an elaborate mugging, but there was too much work done to hide evidence. If you want to pretend to be a decent human being, miss Kruger, you can tell me what projects were worth killing for. If not, obstruction of justice is something that I think carries a sentence in the U.S., and you aren't the most sympathetic defendant."
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Post by Shizuma Matsuna on Apr 2, 2009 1:40:15 GMT -5
Shizuma had been standing by and had heard enough. He didn't want Juliet going to jail...especially since she couldn't run from Barbariccia if she was confined. Shizuma moved between Juliet and Skye looking at them both saying.
"Enough, both of you...we can discuss this but lets do so more civily...I will not have a punch thrown here. Besides, Juliet do you want Emyrs to take it out on me if things get ugly in her hospital. Now Juliet...please let her know about the projects...and Will and Skye...what information do you have about the letter and the lighter."
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Post by skye on Apr 2, 2009 1:50:37 GMT -5
"The lighter was probably what was used to destroy evidence. If so, it would have prints on it. But I'm guessing, if we dusted it, we'd find Juliet's and William's. One set invalidating the other's and rendering anything we find more or less worthless."
Skye said with a shrug and then nodded to will.
"I hadn't heard about a letter, but if it's a poem, we clearly have a copycat. A shooting doesn't really fit the bomber's M.O.."
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Post by Shizuma Matsuna on Apr 2, 2009 2:04:58 GMT -5
"Dust it anyway...you can never be too sure, Agent Sylvestree. Will, was it a poem or a simple letter?" asked Shizuma curiously as he looked around at all three hoping that he could start getting the investigation on track.
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 2, 2009 6:28:55 GMT -5
"Wait... what? What letter?" Juliet blinked. "When did these guys mention a letter?" She looked to Sylvestree and then she shrugged.
"Ede didn't trust us with the top secret projects, even though we were her direct underlings. Something about allowing another chick to take over her company. Only thing I'm mad at her about, the rest... ya really think that I would want her dead? Only chick I want dead at this point in time is red haired and has a habit of raiding corner stores and raping little girls. Which, by the way, peg her for God's sake. She's supposed to be spelling the Apocolypse through breathing." She shook her head. "Anyway, Ede did have a project Will and I stumbled over, something that was described later as a duel bike system."
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Post by skye on Apr 2, 2009 9:48:06 GMT -5
"Let her hit me. I'd love to cuff her."
Skye said to Shizuma coldly and put her pen in her pad, looking to william.
"Is she always this bad? I can't see why Reyes hasn't fired her. She is rude, reckless, thoughtless, uncontrollable, irreverent, likely mentally unstable, and clearly despised her boss. Oh, I'll trust Shizuma for now, but that's the profile of a killer."
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Post by William Nimbus on Apr 2, 2009 12:00:19 GMT -5
Will rolled his eyes and shook his head. "The letter is a noticed that was from Ede, and was approved by the corperate office, basically threatening my job if she ever found out I was still with the Abjects. The letter mentioned that she will terminate me if I was discovered to be with the Abject, and that my name would be disgraced through I2." he said, shaking his head.
"The police took it as motive, since without Ede, I didn't have anything to worry about when it came to the Abjects. The lighter has the same combustible materials that were used to burn the gloves, and conviently the security cameras were going through maintainence in the areas in question. Juliet I can attest later came back to my room during the attack, and she ended up falling asleep in here, I can attest to that. There was no way she could have done it." he continued.
"As for her personality, it that attitude that has kept our office flowing. Ede may be in charge, but she also keeps locked in her office, its been Juliet who has kept the building operational. She is blunt, outspoken, and not afraid to speak her mind. And to top it off, she's had to go through the traumatic experience of not only being in a building that was bombed, but nearly losing someone she's worked with for what seems like ages. I can't blame her for her attitude. There is more "conflict" between the two of us, then either of us with Ede, but we do it to push each other. there is just no malice within the three of us, except with Ede, who has seemed miserable since I met her. The reason why Juliet hs kept her job is because she gets stuff done, Ede is always in her office, and I am in charge of the Academy." he said, before flopping on the bad and waiting for the beeps of his heart to slow down.. he's not suppose to get worked up like that.
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 2, 2009 15:01:53 GMT -5
"Good job doofus. You've got something for Emrys to kill you over if she ever figures out how bad your heart rate went up. And you, investigator, have got to be the most unprofessional investigator I've ever seen in my life. Saying to my face that..." She cleared her throat to do a mimicry of Skye's voice, "'She is rude, reckless, thoughtless, uncontrollable, irreverent, likely mentally unstable, and clearly despised her boss.' Despised BY my boss more likely. And yeah. I'm rude, reckless, I don't think, it takes a god to tame me, I lack proper respect because you haven't given me any, and I'm batshit crazy to stand around here while you say that crap about me." She looked at Will with a glare. "You're lucky I care about you or I would've ditched you by now."
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Post by skye on Apr 2, 2009 16:03:58 GMT -5
"Calling me unprofessional? Watch cop dramas. Now, if you'd be so kind as to ditch him?"
Skye said curtly. She hated Juliet, it was for certain, and then held up a hand, for just a moment and blinked.
"You, according to accounts from hospital staff, provoked Ede. I'm sure I-Squared San Melina General Manager would bne a nice title bump for you. Know that if she dies, my mission in life is to see that you don't get it."
When she was done talking, if Juliet stayed, she would now be totally ignored by Skye. Juliet was no longer part of what was on her mind, William was. She opened her pad again.
"So, Manager Reyes was useless and incompetent, is that your statement? That she was an officer in abstentia and the real Manager was Miss Kruger?"
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Post by Shizuma Matsuna on Apr 2, 2009 16:12:15 GMT -5
"I wouldn't count on anyone dying, Agent Sylvestree, because I believe in the will to survive..and the compentency of the staff here. Now, Juliet, you and I will talk later but for now please calm yourself. And Will, If you start relaxing now I wont rat out your heart rate raise to Emyrs got it?" said Shizuma using a sterner tone.
He had enough of this fighting, it wasn't going to solve any of the cases that were open right now which should be top priority.
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Post by Miyako Tachibana on Apr 2, 2009 16:34:39 GMT -5
"Why the fuck would I want it if it's going to off me due to stress or suspected assassination?" Juliet asked, but she said nothing more. She only moved closer to Will's bed, her protective instinct kicking in. Shizuma could handle himself. Her weakened enemy Will, not so much.
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Post by skye on Apr 2, 2009 16:39:04 GMT -5
"Coem on, Nimbus."
Skye was done being kind now. It was time for full-force "bad cop".
"Your boss is dying. Tell me what you really think. Maybe the assailant was neither of you, but he did you a favor, didn't he? He saved your job and got Kruger a promotion. To a job she was already doing anyway, if I have you right. Who else had something to gain? What else did that poor dying woman no one gives two shits about have to lose?"
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Post by William Nimbus on Apr 2, 2009 16:43:27 GMT -5
"Typical.." he muttered, shaking his head. "I have no interest in her position, and neither does she, thank you. I rejected a similar position in Domino, already, and it wouldn't be fun if one of us was one up on the other." he said, shaking his head.
"I didn't mean that she's incompetent, I meant that Juliet does a hell of a lot more than the company than you assume. You wanted to suggest she should be fired, and I told you why not!" he said, taking a breath when the machine starting beeping faster again.
"Let me ask you this, detective." he said, smirking. "How could I have possibly done it?"
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Post by skye on Apr 2, 2009 16:47:47 GMT -5
"I don't think you did."
Skye said simply, coldly.
"I think you're happy she's going to die, though. And I think somewhere down deep some part of you feels bad that you're taking joy in the end of another person's life. So tell me -"
She spoke slowly, methodically, in the calm-angry manner that chills some people.
"What was Ede working on?"
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Post by William Nimbus on Apr 2, 2009 16:52:59 GMT -5
"I can't tell you.. thats undisclosed information." Will said simply, almost coldly. Under the sheet his hand began to clench, and the blood pressure was rising very slowly.
"And to insinuate that I have no care for my boss is disgusting and rude. You don't know me, don't even try to guess what I'm thinking." he said, trying to be equally is indimidating.
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Post by kc on Apr 2, 2009 16:58:45 GMT -5
"Yeah, but let's be honest, no one has dropped a tear over her. A.D. Lethebridge was 'curious', her sister Lumia is 'concerned'. No one is really upset. Because let's face it, no one thinks this one particular life is any more important than any others. Which is a problem, because everyone deserves someone who will mourn for them, don't they, Agent Sylvestree?" Kelsey Chase walked in, and patted Skye on the shoulder. Like her Doctor, she was talking a little fast, but in a disarming voice, calming, soothing, "I'm into even here for the life. I'm here because I know you know what Edea was working on. My man told me you assaulted him, which is a violation of several American laws, not to mention one UN General Order." She set her suitcase on an unattended chair and opened it. Inside were a variety of gemstones and relics, "I want two things. Let's barter. First, you tell me who that gun-nut teacher is so someone can sit in a cell for a few days to help us flush out this thief, and second, tell the truth. We both know what Edea had worth killing or dying for."
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Post by skye on Apr 2, 2009 17:01:42 GMT -5
Good cop? Skye blinked and wondered why Kelsey was here. Was whatever Ede had that serious? That UNIT was interested despite Lethebridge's request? What on Earth did Kelsey know that Skye didn't. Her rage was tempered by her confusion and curiosity.
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Post by William Nimbus on Apr 2, 2009 17:18:33 GMT -5
"I cannot release all the details, but its a project that Pegasus started up with Global Dynamics. But its certainly not worth killing over as credit to the project is set, killing her is useless. I can't release more details yet, however, we are expected to released the project soon.. real soon." he said, shaking his head.
"Call me a liar, but thats the truth.. and between you and me, I doubt you can bribe me with jewels, Emrys is fore of the museum fanatic."
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